Date: Thursday, February 9, 2012. 5:30 PM.
Location: Cantor Arts Center, just off Palm Drive, at Museum Way and Lomita Drive
American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975), with his direct and unsentimental images of life on small-town streets, in New York subways, and on sharecroppers’ porches, inspired generations of photographers and helped shape contemporary art. Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator, Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses Evans’s work.
Location: Cantor Arts Center, just off Palm Drive, at Museum Way and Lomita Drive
American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975), with his direct and unsentimental images of life on small-town streets, in New York subways, and on sharecroppers’ porches, inspired generations of photographers and helped shape contemporary art. Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator, Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses Evans’s work.